_Z_ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have quite different approach. Since PHP is only the engine to
> produce HTML from XML data, then all processing of XML I do with XSLT.
> PHP is only a kind of manager (gets the name of XML file, sends
> content-type, selects proper xsl file). Here is the code:
>

Actually, PHP doesn't "produce HTML from XML data".  You can parse XML 
data and generate output from it in PHP - but so can you in many languages.

> <?php
> header() ;
> $xsl = "MyForm.xsl" ;
> $command = "xsltproc " . $xsl . " " . $_GET[XML_File] ;
> $last_line = system( $command ) ;
> ?>
> 
> Of course you have to have xsltproc installed, but I assume you have
> it. This way enables you to test your XML --> HTML transformation in
> testing environment. For example:
> bash# xsltproc MyForm.xsl TestData.xml
> 

Even more basic that that - you have to have permission to execute 
commands, which many shared hosts do not allow.  And you must, of 
course, be running on a Linux system.

> That is the end of the story if you want only to display the data from
> XML file.
> 

Only if you have those tools installed, and can stand the default format 
produced.  That often isn't true.  SimpleXML or the DOM functions give 
you much more control.

> If not, and you want HTML to be a FORM to post the data back to the
> server then you need to parse it in the PHP, but this part is easy
> isn't it?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> - Marcin
> 
> 

Yes, it can be quite easy.

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